Darshakaratna Dasari Narayana Rao severely slammed to the exhibitors, who took theaters to lease across the state. He lamented that small budget movies are not anyways getting chances to be screened in sufficient number of theaters and so their existence remains to be a question mark. Having heard Dasari's anguish on the leased theaters and the survival of the small budget films, sources close to the exhibitors are coming up with different arguments.
According to the close sources of some of the exhibitors, unless many theaters across the state are getting leased, they would have been closed down. For example, Devi-Srivdevi theaters of Kakinada city were thought to be closed permanently some years ago. At that time, D.Suresh Babu came forward and took the theaters to lease. Later, the complex was renovated and now, it became the first multiplex of the state other than Hyderabad city. Currently, this multiplex is said to be the number one theater in East and West Godavari districts. All this is achieved through the wonderful maintenance by the staff.
Some of the exhibitors and distributors of the state are said to have great passion in proper maintenance of theaters. So, the leased theaters are obviously safe in their hands. In Nizam area Dil Raju takes care of his leased theaters quite well. Similar is the case with Allu Aravind. In Vizag city, V-Max theater complex and Satyakrishna theater of Samalkot are owned by V.V.Vinayak and are being maintained well. Geetha Apsara theater of Rajamundry was leased to Allu Aravind and it is said to be one of the best theaters of the city.
Finally, Dasari kind of people should know two things. The reason for the failure of a small budget movie is not because of getting sufficient theaters but lacking sufficient content. The second one is, if there are no takers to theaters, definitely they will become commercial complexes and subsequently, Telugu cinema will be disappeared.